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Tue, 18 Dec 2018 23:23:48 +0000en-GBhourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.17Paris, France: An Attack for Black Decemberhttps://325.nostate.net/2018/12/18/paris-france-an-attack-for-black-december/
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 23:23:48 +0000https://325.nostate.net/?p=23810«You are waiting for the revolution? Let it be! My own began a long time ago! When you are ready (god, what an endless wait!) I won’t mind going with you for a while. But when you stop, I shall continue on my way toward the great and sublime conquest of the nothing!

Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society, unruly and heroic tramps will wander with their wild and virgin thought — those who cannot live without planning ever new and dreadful outbursts of rebellion! I shall be among them!»

Pretty words, but there must be more than just words.

I don’t want to run behind the masses. They say that this time it’s the big one, that the insurrection has arrived…mine arrived a long time ago and it’s an individual insurrection.

During the early hours of December 11th, I set fire to six cars belonging to the Paris City Council on Rue Corvisart (in the 13th arrondissement). It was not the City Council that was targeted, any more than it was Macron or any other power. All power must be destroyed.

So we do not forget the comrades who have left us. For Mikhail, Zak, Sebastian, Mauricio and all the others.
For those who are in prison. A thought in particular for Krème and the Scripta Manent defendants in Italy.
For a Black December!

]]>Acquittal in Fight Repression case (Netherlands)https://325.nostate.net/2018/12/17/acquittal-in-fight-repression-case-netherlands/
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:13:17 +0000https://325.nostate.net/?p=23790On November 19th 2016, a group of 250 demonstrators joined at the Kerkplein to demonstrate against the growing repression against anarchists and antifascists in The Hague and further. Repression being the always prohibiting of demonstrations and the identifying of anarchists and antifascist to then take repressive measures against them. This demonstration has also been repressed with violence from the police and with the arrest of 166 people.

Now, almost two years later the public prosecutor decided to prosecute the 166 demonstrators that were arrested at the Kerkplein. The first 50 people had to show up in court last month. After two full days in court, the judge ruled on December 3rd and the first 50 people were acquitted. Yesterday (13/12/2018) the public prosecutor decided not to appeal and to dismiss the remaining cases.

The court case
During the court case that lasted two days, a few things became clear. The police ended the demonstration at the Kerkplein, because some people were wearing face covering. In court it became clear, as our lawyers had already put forward, that there was no restriction on face coverings imposed by the mayor.

The police claimed in their file, that they assumed there was a restriction imposed on face coverings. The police also claimed that the mayor had given the order to end the demonstration. However, it did not become clear from the files who exactly gave that order. What it basically comes down to, is that the police decided on their own with using violence, to arrest, repress and deny demonstration rights because the demonstration simply did not please them.

Repression
This occurrence fits the image of repression that the demonstration was aimed at. The police in The Hague has been targeting anarchists and antifascists in a sickening way. Demonstrations have been ended with violence, without orders from the mayor. Anarchists are being intimidated in their homes, with police raids, breaking of doors to collect for small fines and taking pictures of personal items. The list continues with area-bans, sky-high fines, attempts to recruit informants and the building of CTER* files.

This case shows clearly what has been happening so often in The Hague. The police decides on their own, people get arrested and acquitted later on or not prosecuted at all. Of course it is nice not to have to pay a fine, but in reality, on the streets nothing is changing. The police can do whatever they want to. They don’t care about us getting a fine or not. And if an arrest turns out to be unjustly, there are no consequences for the police. This is how they can effectively keep us off the street. And this is why we are not surprised that this spectacle of the police, judges and the police cell has repeated itself.

However, if they think that our fight for solidarity and a radically different world will stop, they are wrong. Let it be clear that no baton, officer or prison will stop us to fight for true freedom. Let us reflect on these events and create uncontrollable methods to continue to fight.

]]>Athens: A Report on the Occupation of Averof at the Polytechnic University (Greece)https://325.nostate.net/2018/12/17/athens-a-report-on-the-occupation-of-averof-at-the-polytechnic-university-greece/
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:08:16 +0000https://325.nostate.net/?p=23788

The following text is an initiative of debriefing and not a result of a collective work with all the participants. Some of them may even disagree with the style and the concerns of the text. However, it is an attempt to reveal the facts and considerations that define the project.

On the morning November 14th, comrades, individuals and members of collectives occupy the central Polytechnic building in order to stand a political presence during the three-days anniversary of the 1973 insurrection and to keep the polytechnic open on November 17th. The two objectives are related to a wider political aim. To not compromise with the bourgeois-democratic state – (especially as a final and positive result of an insurrection )- and therefore to refuse the cessation of the conflict with the state repressive forces. For some of us, it was also important not to portray the uprising as an event of the past, as a museum piece. On the contrary, to express the necessity of these moments to exist nowadays and that its memory can be honored only if and when it is becoming action. We acknowledge that a part of the people participating in the Polytechnic rebellion of 1973 struggled against Authority, whether it was dictatorial or democratic. That’s why the request was ‘DOWN WITH AUTHORITY’. Some consciously or not, continue the struggle started from that moment until now. Many of the greatest incidents of the post-dictatorship period occurred in Polytechnic and were straightly connected to struggles bearing an anarchist sign.

The central position of the Averof building has yielded positive results. Without the necessity to remove our fullfaces, through dialogue or distribution of political material, we communicated with a huge part of the people that visited the Polytechnic University these days and entered, mainly for the first time in the kept-locked building of Averof. Many texts have been distributed, spreading the reasons of the occupation or transmitting solidarity callings made by other anarchist initiatives.Hundreds of brochures were given in different languages, containing a wide range of thought and action from the anarchist and anti-authoritarian scene. A particular joy to remember was the presence and discussion with schools coming for visit as well as the the kids using the luxurious Averof space to play football. Without any sophistication, the central narrative describing the masked insurgents as unconscious, violent and unapproachable persons, got broken.

Another mean of communication and anti-propaganda was the speaker playing constantly in respond to the announcements and music of KKE (communist party), PAME (communist party workers union) and KNE (communist youth). Through the microphone, we spread our texts and words:

“We do not forget that the KKE stood against the Polytechnic occupation and rebellion calling them a provocateurs’ act.” “The practices of exile, torture and political persecution that the KKE comes to condemn as junta practices today, were the same practices used against anarchists and other fighters in the Soviet Union. Makronisos of the Junta was Siberia of the Soviet Union, “Lenin was a manipulator of the people, speaking about freedom and abolition of the state to later bring the toughest state dictatorship.” We do not forget Kronstadt and the Makhnovist army and the repression from red army towards them” “The Bolsheviks’ sovereignty paved the way for Putin’s fascistic leadership of Russia because of the imposed faith and submission to the Nation, the State and the Father-Leader,” “We do not forget the co-government of KKE-PASOK-ND in 1989”, “The presence of KKE in the parliament is the last bulwark for the destruction of bourgeois democracy, which was proved when the Greek Communist Party protect the Parliament at 2011 “.

Apart from the advantages offered by its location and political meanings, the choice to occupy the building of Averof was made for another kind of reason. The initial target was to occupy in Polytechnic the building of Gini. A few days before the occupation should start, one of the team responsible for the breaking of the occupation of Polytechnic in 2017 is announcing an event they will held in Gini building, during the 3-days anniversary. Therefore, it was decided to abandon the project to occupy this specific space since it will induce a confrontation with this team. A confrontation which would not offered anything at this present stage but rather would serve the state‘s plans and enclose the occupation project in a self-referential conflict. The effort of this group and other “comrades” to establish the ground they “won” with last year’s repressive action was simply overpassed. The occupation of Averof spread the word and acts of anarchy and insurrection with a full visibility. These groups must stop imposing on other parts of millieu, their left features, their tactics and their choice to cooperate with left-wing parties and organizations. Let’s note that on the day the occupation of Averof started, representatives of left-wing groups threatened to proceed in “evacuation like last year” while putting a lock in Tositsa street entrance of Polytechnic. A tactic to ensure that riots wont happened, messing up the celebration. However, they retrieved without engaging in physical confrontation with the body of the Averof occupation.

Beyond that, a comradeship environment was felt in the project, a multinational body with good communication, food infrastructure, able to organize two events. In the first, there were screenings and discussions about the conflicts of Polytechnic in 1995, alimented by a communication with imprisoned comrades. In the second, a documentary about the history of Anarchy was projected. As it was collectively decided, we left the Averof building without damages, in order to not give allegiance to repression. However it must be clear that Averof is still a luxury construct that promotes the glory of those who control knowledge, hiding behind its shining marbles the war and violence produced by the university’s relationships with corporations, the army, the police, the municipality and other relevant institutions. Vandalism and looting within it were not a moral and political issue for the initiative that has occupied it. But our targets were to be found elsewhere.

On the last day November 17th, the polytechnic university remained open and conflicts took place against the units of repression. Nevertheless, one of the goal did not get materialize. The plan was for the demonstration of this day to be able to reach the university and join the conflicts there. Due to the lack of communication with the people coming back from the demonstration and maybe due to our delay to act, the cops had already took possession of the whole ground around the neighborhood of Exarheia. The presence of the two watercannon vehicles rendered the expansion of the conflicts very difficult, as well as the constant effort of the cops to destroy the barricades. Some injuries in our side, caused by teargas and stones shot by the riot cops can be mentioned, however they did not manage to arrest anyone present in Polytechnic conflict. We left the polytechnic in a mess, as the left-wing groups already let it. Papers, table, chairs and garbages. Some were given to the flames to break the teargas clouds while others became barricades, giving them a use in total adequation to the meaning of the days.

A last relevant point is to share the concerns of some comrades, who participated in the occupation. The concern to understand if our moves to coexist, even in our own terms, with parties’ mechanisms tends towards the absorption of our actions in the democratic spectacle and distorts our struggle.

In Averof, the following banner were made as the decision of the first assembly “VIOLENT INSURRECTIONARY STRUGGLES AGAINST FASCISM, STATE AND REPRESSION”, an initiative made one “HONOR TO THOSE WHO GIVE ALL THEIR EXISTENCE AGAINST DOMINATION. HONOR TO THE 17-YEAR ANARCHIST MIKHAIL ZHLOBITSKIY”,”MIHALIS KALTEZAS IS PRESENT”. On November 15, on the day of his birth, a banner for the anarchist Dimitris Armakolas was raised, after learning that he was found clinically brain-dead after an accident that happened some days before, during a political action he initiated. The banner reads “DIMITRIS ARMAKOLAS IS PRESENT TO OUR MOST EXTREME CHOICES”.

]]>Italy : Updates on the ‘Scripta Manent’ trialhttps://325.nostate.net/2018/12/13/italy-updates-on-the-scripta-manent-trial/
Thu, 13 Dec 2018 20:30:59 +0000https://325.nostate.net/?p=23784At the hearing on 14th November a calendar of future hearings was once again announced after the expert appointed by the court to transcribe phone tapping asked for more time, obtained a 60-day extension and a second expert was also appointed. The prosecutor made it known that the judicial police had forgotten to deliver a CD audio and asked for an extension of the custody measures, but for the moment a calendar was set out complying with the length of custody… which is due to expire at the end of February (taking account of the 30/35 hearings till now, from mid-January the deadline slides to 18th February, plus some more days considering the hearings due in January). During the hearing of 14th, a DNA expert appointed by the court following Capra (DNA expert for the defence)’s report, gave his statement; the expert for the defence had challenged the reliability of the old report in several points.

A DNA examination for Alfredo [Cospito] was made again concerning evidence held by RIS carabinieri on the device of 2005 and on what was left of its handles. Of course nothing came of this… except the ‘pollution’ of more than 30 DNA profiles, which according to RIS carabinieri is due to subsequent contaminations. But the object under examination doesn’t appear anywhere! There only remains a probabilistic discourse on an analysis of 2012 between a mixed profile of several items and a partial one obtained by a part of the handles of a plastic bag [of the device found in] 2005; at the time alleles [gene variations] compatible with Alfredo’s profile were allegedly detected. Defence lawyers will give their technical explanation on the matter through their expert, but it is simply a question of alleles shared by a wide range of population (‘Italian’, ‘Caucasian”, etc.), to which the discourse relates, where probability figures vary according to comparison data put into a software that analyses them.

If we look at the whole story of this trial, its being a bit of a stretch is self-evident.
For want of something better, prosecutor Sparagna keeps trying to add more papers to this trial. On the 14th he decided to ask for the addition of:

In practice an endless procedure that ‘investigates’ or rather collects random documents on past, present and future solidarity.

For the moment the calendar is:7th December – technical hearing with no debate
22nd-23rd January– prosecutor’s indictment hearing plus plaintiffs
11th-12th-13th-14th-15th February – defence
The hearing on 7th December should clarify whether there will be any other news regarding times or date changes.

]]>Argentina: All 12 Anarchist Comrades Detained in November Are Being Held in Preventive Detentionhttps://325.nostate.net/2018/12/13/argentina-all-12-anarchist-comrades-detained-in-november-are-being-held-in-preventive-detention/
Thu, 13 Dec 2018 20:15:54 +0000https://325.nostate.net/?p=23781Note from the Chilean blog Publicacion Refractario: Despite the continuous contradictory information that has come to us from different factions regarding the detained comrades on the other side of the mountain range, which is related to the fact that their situation is not being publicized- their names, the charges, everything that happened has been silenced. We prefer to publish the communique from the ‘Union of Lawyers and Attorneys’ who are quite clear about the recent events that have taken place in the Argentine territory… Against silence and indifference: To spread the insurrectionist anti-prison solidarity.

All the detained anarchists defended by our union have been processed and placed in preventive detention.

In total there are 12 anarchist political prisoners.

One is accused of throwing an explosive device at Judge Bonadio’s car. His name is Marco Viola.

Two others are accused of having attacked the tomb of the criminal chief of the Federal Police Colonel Ramón Falcón. Their names are Anahi Salcedo and Hugo Rodriguez.

There was a raid on a social center in the Barrio of Constitución, in CABA (Autonomous City of Buenos Aires) and all they detained everybody who was meeting in this place, some with more permanence, others circumstantially.

ALL OF THEM have been accused of EVERYTHING.

They are all under investigation for being part of an organized structure established and created to commit offences among which are those that we have already mentioned.

Bail was refused for all of the detainees.

Now Judge Ercolini has indicted all of the accused.

The prosecution ruling for PREVENTIVE DETENTION was passed.

They have ordered that ALL the anarchist detainees remain imprisoned for their trial.

In these days, the units of the repressive forces suppress once more the collective outburst of rage and the necessity for violent conflicts. In their offices, riot buses and coffeeshops they fed by the idea to catch insurgents in their grip to be able to humiliate, torture and imprison them. In these same days we attack them in their headquarters. To take them by surprise, to expose their weaknesses and failures in front of the ever-going will to destroy them. The same cops who are proudly patrolling in the city, convinced of their unlimited ability to terrorize the populations, were forced to run away loaded with fears in the night of December 2, in front of their own station.

As democratic state is maintaining the population in a constant state of survival without starvation and widespread sicknesses, in the same way the riotcops units are using the maximum of repression without direct execution. Their presence is to impose control, their actions to re-establish order. The war is chemical and the weapons they are allowed to use are not lethal. In every way they are the frame of stability, designing the inner borders of metropolis, tracing routes and dead ends for the demonstrations. They are occupying grounds, defining the danger zones which have to be surrounded. They are used against social uprisings, against the migrants inside the camps, to secure the destruction of natural places. They are the symbol of the dominant subject in the social base as the white straight European male, guarantor of the law in favor of statist and capitalist society.

The establishment of the YMET police station in Kaisariani was a planified move of the counterinsurgency policies. During the German-Greek Nazi occupation and the Dekemvriana 1944, this neighborhood was an area of resistance. Nowadays, it seems normalized in the neighborhood to have a constant presence of cops in uniforms circulating and living around this military base. This is a result when oppression is not to confront in itself but the enemy is to be found in the national origin of this oppression. Populations are accepting to be dominated by the local repressive forces if no foreign powers are involved. Some parts of the resisting forces, though the last decades have denied the left-patriotic characteristic of the guerrilla tradition. We are one part of this negation and we seek to develop our analysis beyond the leftist hegemony.

The insurrection of 2008 in Greece was one of the most powerful in the contemporary world. It showed an the amount of power and creativity which can be brought against the state mechanisms and how weak and small they looked those days. The murder of the anarchist Grigoropoulos from the Greek police will always be present in our memory and through our actions. Even though, we are to mark that this assassination, and the insurrection it brought within the society and the all left political spectrum was mainly because he was a 15 years old white Greek student (meanwhile they try to hide his political identity). From our sight, we are seeing the state‘s murders in various subjects, in a daily base along with the imprisonment and domination over the ground. That is why our struggles are violent and constant. Our insurrectionary acts do not depend on social legitimisation. Society is an abstract concept, more likely it refers to what is visible and approved to exist. Our struggles are connected to our experiences. We do not fight to save the people, we fight to survive and give solidarity to those who resist with the target to stimulate more individuals and collectives to join this sincere anarchist struggle.

Our tactics can easily be adopted in any metropolis of the InterState fortress. Every preparing action, every conversation, every aspect of our plan, can get us one step forward from our enemy giving us the advantage to surprise him. Let’s create an insurrectional movement without borders that will be able to spread anarchistic ideas and practices.

We send a burning signal and we join the call for a Black December announced by the comrades in Chile by communicating with this action and our words with the insurgents around the world. In fighting memory of all friends, comrades and unknown killed or imprisoned by the state.

]]>Comrade Ucil, imprisoned for the Mayday riots, is free (Indonesia)https://325.nostate.net/2018/12/12/comrade-ucil-imprisoned-for-the-mayday-riots-is-free-indonesia/
Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:15:04 +0000https://325.nostate.net/?p=23773Ucil, the last of the imprisoned anarchists of the Mayday 2018 mutiny in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, has been free since December 7, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. Congratulations, comrade and congratulations to the Palang Hitam crew for all their hard work as well as all the comrades who showed solidarity from so-called Australia.